In the whole garrison of, we'll say, 100 men...there were not more than 50 rifles...During the course of the fight someone contrived a means of inserting a couple of inferior shotguns into a metal rain-pipe and firing the triggers by means of a string- Joseph O'Connor

A poor woman carrying some bread ventured across the bridge to be shot through the head by an enemy sniper from the direction of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital - Joseph Byrne

[By Thursday] Volunteers were beginning to feel the strain of constant firing and loss of sleep and were observed dozing in their positions - Peadar O'Mara Commandant de Valera arrived on the scene and wanted 20 men to carry out a bayonet charge...the charge was cancelled as there was not sufficient men to take part - Seamus Kavanagh

We could not understand why [the surrender] should happen...The excitement in Boland's was terrible. What did we want to surrender for? Volunteers were shouting themselves hoarse...others were singing songs and some were openly crying - Peadar O'Mara

[A soldier] asked me [the commandant's] name. I told him it was de Valera and he said, "He was a Devilero, all right"- Seamus Kavanagh